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' NrTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' CHARLES ZIMMERLING, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SIMONS. MYERS, OF SAME PLACE.

IRONING-TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,913, dated October6, 1885.

Application filed August 14, 1884. Serial No. 140,486. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GHAELEs ZIMMERLING, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Ironing-Tablets, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in Whiche- 'Figure l is a perspective view of anironing-tablet embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central verticalsection thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

My invention consists of atablct for conveniently and nicely waxingirons, as Will be hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a cake, plate, slice, or pieceof wax, which is supported on a block, B, of wood or other suitablematerial.

O represents a perforated cap, preferably of metal,which incloses thepiece of wax A, and is fitted to the sides of the block B, astrip orband,D, of paper or other material being secured to the sides of the capand block by gumming, pasting, or other means, so as to preventdisplacement of the cap, although when the tablet is in service a slightdownward movement is imparted to the cap, it being noticed that thesides or rim of the cap O depend from the same so as to envelop thesides of the piece of wax and freely embrace the sides of the block B,so that said rim has free vertical movements on said block, and alsoprovides means of attachment of the cap with the block B, due to thestrip D,which is secured both to the rim and block.

It will be seen that when a hot iron is passed over the cap the latteris heated and the wax melted or softened, so that the pressure of theiron on the cap, causing the latter to yield or move, forces the waxthrough theperforations of the cap in contact with the iron, whereby theiron is conveniently and uniformly waxed, as is evident, it beingnoticed that the block B forms the stand of the tablet and the supportfor the piece of wax, and the cap retains said piece in position andcontrols the supply of wax to the iron, said supply being regulated bythe degree of pressure of the iron on the cap.

I am aware that it is old to use a piece of wax inclosed in porousmaterial for polishing sad-irons, and such I do not broadly claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

An ironing-tablet consisting of the block B, havinga piece of wax, A,thereon, andaperforate metallic cap, C, secured by aband,D,to said blockB, covering said piece, substantially as described.

CHARLES ZIMMERLING.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHErM, A. P. GRANT.

